Bloom Where You're Planted

"Bloom where you're planted"
Taken by Josh Chapman

For those of us 75 or younger, this time of pandemic may well be the most challenging time in our country that we have ever had to face. True, we have all experienced tragedy and heartache and rare is it when any have yet to experience doubt and fear in our lives. But even in those dark and challenging personal times, it was likely that there was always someone close or at least available to listen, to comfort, and to understand what we were going through and as a result, proffer the support needed to take that proverbial “deep breath” emotionally needed to calm ourselves and, as the old saying goes, “keep on keeping on.”

Unfortunately, when everyone is experiencing the same tragedy and heartache, is feeling the same cold, clammy fingers of doubt and fear encircle their very being, that “someone” close who is available to listen, to comfort, to understand is hard to find. It is as if the fictional Dementors so familiar to Harry Potter fans have somehow materialized and descended upon us, ready to suck the goodness and happiness and confidence from each of us…where is that Patronus charm when it is really needed.

Although there are no real Dementors nor Patronus charm for that matter, there may be something that can help quiet some of the doubt and fear that many…dare I say “all”…of us are experiencing, something in addition to prayer and faith in a Higher Power…music and its lyrics. Winston Churchill said during the Second World War that when going through Hell…keep on going. A contemporary singer-songwriter, David Wilcox, has committed that sentiment to a song. You can listen by clicking the title and the lyrics are below should you wish to follow along...and share a link to your songs of hope in the comments section.

Show the Way 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmIIDiN57E) 

David Wilcox

You say you see no hope
You say you see no reason we should dream
That the world would ever change
You’re saying love is foolish to believe
And they'll always be some crazy
With an army or a knife
To wake you from your daydream
Put the fear back in your life

Look
If someone wrote a play
To just to glorify what's stronger than hate
Would they not arrange the stage
To look as if the hero came too late?
He's almost in defeat
It's looking like the evil side will win
So on the edge of every seat
From the moment that the whole thing begins

It is love who mixed the mortar
And it's love who stacked these stones
And it's love who made the stage here
Although it looks like we're alone
In this scene, set in shadows,
Like the night is here to stay
There is evil cast around us

But it's love that wrote the play
For in this darkness love can show the way

Now the stage is set
You feel your own heart beating in your chest
This life's not over yet
So we get up on our feet and do our best
We play against the fear
We play against the reasons not to try
We're playing for the tears
Burning in the happy angel's eyes

For it's love who mixed the mortar
And it's love who stacked these stones
And it's love who made the stage here
Though it looks like we're alone
In this scene, set in shadows,
Like the night is here to stay
There is evil cast around us
But it's love that wrote the play
For in this darkness love will show the way

Show the way

Show the way

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: David Patrick Wilcox

Show the Way lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group